Agreed. I understand the marketing aspect very well. It's sad companies are buying into this, even the one I'm working for. :)
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:02, Troy Gaines <troygai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been a satisfied long-time user of SVN. > > > > I found the following article recently. I have used both and this > appears > > (Dimensions CM is slow from our experience) to be very skewed based on > user > > experience. Anyone else have a similar issue? > > > > http://www.serena.com/products/dimensions-cm/index.html > > > > Please let me know if this is not the correct user group. > > That's not an "article", it's a sales brochure. I am not at all > surprised that marketing materials by a CM product vendor cast their > own products in a more favorable light than their competitors. You can > find similar language in marketing materials published by vendors > selling SVN solutions too. > > Statements like this: > > "In common global development conditions, tests have shown that it is > 60 times faster than IBM Rational ClearCase and 3 times faster than > Subversion." > > are really hard to use in a meaningful way as they don't say anything > about *what* was tested or *how* the testing was conducted. > > Your own testing with your typical workloads, or even > testing/comparisons done by an independent 3rd party with full details > of what and how they tested, would be much more informative IMHO. >
